Bill Shorten announced on Thursday that a Labor government would finance 15 hours a week of subsidised preschool education for three year olds from 2021. With education an election battleground, Short…

The government has rejected the Referendum Council’s call for a national Indigenous representative assembly to be put into the constitution, effectively taking the debate about constitutional recognit…

Peter Dutton has advised Alan Joyce and other business executives who have written to Malcolm Turnbull urging action on same-sex marriage to “stick to their knitting”. It’s advice some in the governme…

Finally, Clive Palmer has formally put a full stop to his personal political career, announcing on Monday he won’t be running for the Senate. Palmer United Party will still field Senate candidates, in…

Bronwyn Bishop has finally quit the speakership after weeks of revelations about her extravagant claims and the government has set up a sweeping review into the parliamentary entitlement system to que…

This is a budget for when the economy has gone soft and the political situation is precarious. The bold reforming zeal, accompanied by a “we know best” attitude, of last year has gone. The government …

The Greens mostly like to keep their party ‘internals’ internal. The leadership transition from Christine Milne to Victorian senator Richard Di Natale was marked by secrecy and tightly stitched up. Th…